St Joseph loses Jesus.
Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it.
Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him.
After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished,
and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.”
And Jesus is great…
And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?”
Yeah why worry Mary, your son was only gone for three days? ;)
Can you imagine what was going through St. Joseph’s mind?
“Mary… just, stay, put. Please just stay put. Real great I just lost God himself. That’s all I need is to lose The Mother of God too.”
Mary & Jesus for sure both knew The Father’s House very very well. That wonderful little Mary was always looking up to God to know The Father’s wishes for His Son, and hers. She kept these things in her heart…
and his mother kept all these things in her heart. 51
